Cannes Market Dailies

My dear colleagues and friends,

With Cannes around the corner, it is time to discover today's new talents!

NEW MORNING FILMS will be thrilled to introduce you to the highlights of its 2015 Line Up and will attend the market from May 14th-19th .

Location: The Riviera Marina Show Room -  G17

To book a meeting, check availabilities, request a link or a screener, please contact Germain Labeille: germain@newmorningfilms.com

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN CANNES!
Fore more info: www.newmorningfilms.com or on Cinando

UK, 2015 // DRAMA // 81min // COMPLETED // MARKET DEBUT
 

With: Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles; Rush; Northern Soul; The Theory of Everything), Andrea Deck (Mr. Selfridge; The Devil’s Violinist; The Counsellor), Ben Cura (Comes a bright day; Threesome; Dream On), Tom Bateman (The Tunnel; Da Vinci’s Demons; Jekyll and Hyde), Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral; Poirot)

Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play, 'Creditors' is a beautifully shot modern re-telling of Strindberg's story of love, betrayal, revenge and psychological manipulation, which he considered to be his one true masterpiece.

At times disturbingly funny and cruelly bleak, 'Creditors' deals with the most private aspects of human relationships. From questioning our concepts of marriage and fidelity, to trying to establish the role of the modern woman in a world still trapping her within the confines of old fashioned canons, the film's story stirs, moves and sometimes even angrily rebuts our very own personal definitions of each.

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USA, 2015 // DRAMA // 72min // COMPLETED // MARKET DEBUT

Written by Oscar Nominated Nicholas Kazan
 

With: James Callis (Battlestar Galactica, Bridget Jones's Diary), Maya Kazan (The Knick, Boardwalk Empire), Frank Medrano (The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Sleepers)

It is a story of seduction, retribution, and innocence lost. When a young woman is raped, will she sacrifice her humanity and her innocence to enact revenge on her attacker? "Blood Moon" asks the question: when a man’s casual approach to sex turns ugly, how far will a woman go to avenge herself?
 

“Kenneth Kokin’s brilliant directorial debut ‘Blood Moon’ is an engaging and gripping tragedy that’s worthy of being seen. Kokin also produced and directed second unit on several award-winning films that include the ‘The Usual Suspects’, ‘Captain Abu Raed’,’The Way of the Gun’ and ‘Mortdecai’.

Haunting, yet stylistically beautiful, the story follows a young woman who is raped and how she executes retribution on her attacker. It explores the transition from a perky, pretty teen-ager to someone who is forever warped from abuse and degradation.’
Erin Grover | SydneysBuzz // Read Interview
 

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USA, 2015 // DRAMA // 80min // COMPLETED/MARKET DEBUT

Produced by Jason Goldman & Mikkel Kastberg
 

With: Natalie Thomas, Talia Wray, Alexandra Turshen

Three diverse women are challenged to redefine their notions of love over the course of a fall weekend in New York City.
 

Sasha (21) is an impulsive young woman consumed by a volatile relationship with a passionate writer, Gavin. After yet another fight, Gavin refuses to play along with their evening plans. Sasha takes off with her best friend instead.

Jessie (33) is a successful ad exec searching the Internet for her perfect match. Increasingly desperate, she agrees to meet Frank, an average guy from Brooklyn, but she abruptly ends the date, regretting the whole idea. She tries to salvage her night and looks for better plans.

Lauren (42) is a sensible woman in an ideal Manhattan marriage: Upper West Side apartment, modest wealth, and a single child. And yet, she feels something is missing. In an attempt to re-ignite their spark, she and her husband Greg decide to attend a swingers party.

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POLAND, 2015 // FANTASY COMEDY // 90min // POST-PRODUCTION // MARKET DEBUT
 

A young man dressed as a sailor arrives by train in the town of Łódź in Poland. To each person he meets he tells a different story: how he sailed the seas, climbed the Himalayas, tangoed in Argentina, studied gastronomy in France and practiced Kung Fu in China… Has he invented these stories to make up for his lost identity?

Just after telling the scary story of a child murderer in town, the police discover a dead girl in a barrel. The sailor finds himself suddenly obliged to prove that his stories are true to all those he encounters: he prepares a French dinner for a local family, stands up for a friend and wins a fight against bullies, dances the tango with a beautiful woman, climbs the highest chimney in Łódź, and last, but not least saves a little girl endangered by the mysterious serial killer.

Set in a poetic reality, it is the tale of a charming sailor who has forgotten his identity and is looking for a place to drop anchor even if far away from the sea.

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GERMANY-POLAND-USA, 2015 // EXPERIMENTAL // 73min // COMPLETED // MARKET PREMIERE
 

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills is an intimate and raw film about women and female identity. Using both black-and-white and color, this feature, set in Berlin and its environs, and in a small town in Poland takes place in private homes and in public gardens; the worlds seem very tightly contained, even in the open outdoor spaces. The performances are so candid and raw that we are not always sure if this is a narrative or a documentary. Natalie – young, childlike, playful, lives in Berlin. During the day she works with children. At night she parties with her friends, discussing insecurities, hopes and fears. She lives in a dream-like world. She acts out her roles. Which is the real Natalie? Maria stays at home with her young child, Elise. Her contact with the outside world seems only via her balcony, or her own imagination. Elise is oddly adult both child and parent – profound and poetic, nurturing and encouraging. They care for each other. Latent, darker human instincts are played with and suppressed. Life and death mingle in the home. Stefania, an older woman, lives in Poland. She reminisces with others about forgotten people. They discuss disease, loss and death – the ghost of Tadek, whose body turned black when he ripped his infected bladder, and died. What is the connection between these women? Are they alternate realities of the same life? Are they converging memories of an entire lifetime? Under the winter sky, they wonder what they might become and what might have become of them. Time passes ever slower.

With tender intimacy, the film looks within the cosmos of the private for the moments in which the time in between becomes concentrated in the gaze of the horses running by. A touching illusion emerges, as if Marcin Malaszczak managed to capture the fleeting moments of life between its turning points on film.
 

FORUM/BERLINALE

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CROATIA-SLOVENIA, 2014 // DRAMA // 98min // COMPLETED

Unfolding over a summer night in a rural Croatian village, the new film from director Zvonimir Juric is a bold, humane, and morally challenging social drama.

The Reaper begins with Ivo (Ivo Gregurevic), a quiet labourer in the employ of an agro-industrial conglomerate, coming to the aid of a woman whose car has run out of petrol on a dark, deserted road. Though he first appears in the guise of a saviour, the truth is that Ivo is anything but a hero: he did time in prison for raping a woman many years ago. These days, he is quiet and withdrawn, struggling with his demons and with the ugly past that his fellow villagers refuse to let him forget.

Juric subtly orchestrates The Reaper's volatile narrative, maintaining a sense of danger that pervades the gloomy, austere atmosphere right up until the grim climax.

Three intertwined stories that unfold over a single night in an isolated Croatian village add up to grim but compelling viewing in “The Reaper,” a tense, nuanced drama from helmer Zvonimir Juric (“The Blacks”). Aided by a superb, seasoned cast and stellar camerawork from Branko Linta (a prizewinner at the Pula Film Festival), Juric captures the atmosphere of volatility and despair in a place where former deeds are not easily forgotten and the recent past is still a raw wound.

Variety
 

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GERMANY, 2014 //  DRAMA // 87min // COMPLETED

With: Patrycia Ziolkowska (The Edge of Heaven by Fatih Akin), Wolfram Koch, Bibiana Beglau, Samuel Finzi, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Almut Zilcher, Magne Havard Brekke

Kate, a young actress, has decided to kill herself. She checks into a suicide hotel, which features total privacy and different suicide options to choose from. Here, she meets Viktor, a room service waiter, who introduces her to the hotel's 'menu'. The two of them end up spending the night together and fall in love. The next day, Kate embarks on an intense, alcohol-fueled relationship with Viktor, who seems to be harboring problems of his own. Sooner or later, however, Kate's suicidal tendencies return in full force...

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NORWAY-KUDISTAN, 2014 // DRAMA // 75min // COMPLETED

A group of refugees are on a bus bound for Oslo, visiting the capital city in a land promising new beginnings. But for five people, it’s a day to rectify their past and justify a new future. We follow them as they each explore their possibilities – a secret love, a new life, a white lie, fulfilling a dream and avenging the death of a husband. 

Their stories are bound together by a letter to the King of Norway, written by eighty-two year old Mirza.

Having nabbed the Nordic film prize at the Gothenburg Film Festival for 2013′s “Before Snowfall,” Norwegian helmer Hisham Zaman pulled off the same honor for the second year in a row with his sophomore effort, “Letter to the King,” a poignant ensemble drama that crosscuts among various refugees and asylum seekers, each with their individual hopes and agendas, as they spend a day in Oslo.

Variety
 

The film’s only 75 minutes long, which means that each of the five interconnected storylines has less than 15 minutes to introduce the characters, develop their conflicts and bring their stories to a close. But Zaman does so beautifully, further confirming he’s a storyteller of significant economy and observational skill as well as talent.

With this low-budget but impressive film, which was released in Norway at the end of January, the writer-director managed to take win the top prize at Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival, the Dragon Award, for the second year in a row after last year’s win for his debut, Before Snowfall.

The Hollywood Reporter

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POLAND, 2014 // COMEDY-DRAMA // 78min // COMPLETED

Little Crushes takes us into the lives of three young adults looking for solidarity, love and independence. Kasia and Asia share an apartment, a car and a job: clearing out the houses of the recently deceased and selling the treasures they find at a second-hand market. Peter works in a factory screwing lids onto jars, but ends up on the street. He is still struggling with his recent divorce and a mother who isn’t exactly the most stable person on earth.

When the girls ask him to help out with their ‘two-person business’, he needs no second bidding. He quickly falls for Asia, but this disrupts the balance of the brand-new friendship between the three; it turns out Kasia is also in love…

Mumblecore from Poland? This fresh-faced auteur film may not tick all the genre boxes, but it makes a lot of nods in that direction. The natural dialogues, dry humour and delicate singer-songwriter music from Polish band Enchanted Hunters make a comparable, natural impression.

Rotterdam Int. Film Festival

Through keen humour, this Polish indie debut portrays three grownups in search of love, friendship and independence. Aleksandra Gowin and Ireneusz Grzyb present this triangle drama in a style that is as natural as it is eccentric. Little Crushes is a film about the beauty in everyday simplicity.

Göteborg Int. Film Festival

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